reticence

英

美

n.  沉默; 含蓄

复数：reticences　

TOEFL

BNC.18741 / COCA.18151

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 沉默寡言的;不与人交谈的
  Someone who isreticentdoes not tell people about things.
  1. She is so reticent about her achievements...
     她对自己的成就缄口不言。
  2. Mrs. Smith, normally a reticent woman, took it upon herself to write to the President.
     通常都很沉默的史密斯夫人决定自己给总统写信。

英英释义

noun

• the trait of being uncommunicative
  Synonym:reservetaciturnity

双语例句

• His reticence be more reveal than his speech.
  他的沉默所表露的要胜过他的言词。
• I sensed a reticence on their part to discuss the deal.
  我能感到他们方面在讨论交易时比较勉强。
• But his reticence of love prolonged it.
  他在爱情上的沉默延长了魔法。
• His reticence about his past made them very suspicious.
  他对自己过去的闭口不谈使得他们满腹狐疑。
• He broke out of his normal reticence and told me the whole story.
  他打破了平时一贯沉默寡言的习惯，把事情原原本本都告诉了我。
• It was impossible to break through her barricade of reticence.
  要打破她沉默的壁垒简直是不可能的。
• Luther did not understand Zwingli's reticence to accept a physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
  路德并不明白慈运理为何无法接受基督在圣餐中实际的同在。
• But he also shows rare unease and reticence when asked if he had always harboured doubts about the strategy, even as he drove it forward under Nardelli.
  但在被问及他是否一直对这一战略抱着疑虑（甚至在纳尔代利领导下推行这一战略时）时，他也显示出了罕见的不安与沉默。
• Researchers have recently discovered that altering a single gene can overcome the plants 'reticence.
  研究人员近来发现，改变某种基因可以克服植物防御的迟缓性。
• Love grows in reticence and matures in reverie.
  爱情，在静穆中生长，又在遐想中浓郁。